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2024 LEAGUE

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STANDINGS

Locations:

Ken McDonald Golf Course, 800 E Divot Drive, Tempe, AZ 85283

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IronOaks of Sun Lakes, which consists of two courses;

27 holes of championship golf at Oakwood and an 18-hole executive course at Ironwood.

 

Oakwood Address: 24215 S Oakwood Boulevard, Sun Lakes, AZ 85248
Enter neighborhood from the southwest on Sun Lakes Boulevard just north of Riggs Road or from the southeast on EJ Robson
Boulevard just north of Riggs Road

 

Ironwood Address: 550 W Champagne Drive, Sun Lakes, AZ 85248
Enter neighborhood on E Halley Drive just east of Alma School Road

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Pricing:

  • The annual League registration fee is $40 per player and payable via the registration link above. It will go into the year-end prize fund and help cover costs to run the League.

  • The weekly League participant fee is $30 & payable to the Oakwood or Ironwood Golf Shop. This includes ~$22 for your green fee, golf cart, range balls, & tax plus an additional ~$8 that will go into the year-end prize fund.

League Format

  • Regular Spring League Play will begin at 4:00pm on Friday April 5th and then continue each Friday for 11 weeks through June 14th. The Spring position round (1 v 2, 3 v 4, ...) will be held on June 21st

  • Regular Summer League Play will begin on Friday June 28th and continue each Friday for 11 weeks through September 6th
    The Summer position round will be held on September 13th and the Overall position round will be held on September 20th.

  • Please see page two of this notice for the current course schedule, addresses, and driving directions.

  • League play consists of 9-hole individual (head-to-head) matches. The first group tees off at or slightly before 4pm.

  • Whether you participate or not, every player who shows up before, during, or after League play will receive 1 point.

  • Individual matches will consist of both medal (total strokes) and match (hole-by-hole) play. Individual matches will be conducted at the full handicap differential, but up to a maximum of 18 strokes. 2 points will be awarded to the winner of the medal play segment and 2 points will be awarded to the winner of the match play segment of each match. Should there be a tie in the medal and/or match play portion, then 1 point will be awarded to each player in that segment or those segments.

  • You may play any set of tees that you want at both Oakwood and Ironwood, but once you decide on a particular set of tees at each course, we ask that you stick with the same set of tees all season long. The League will handle all scoring and handicaps in accordance with USGA rules. Spring, summer, and overall standings will be published weekly.

  • The annual League registration fee is $40 per player. A portion of the registration fees will go into our year-end prize fund and the rest will go towards the League’s annual donation to ALS.

  • The weekly League participant fee is $30 and payable to the Oakwood or Ironwood Golf Shop. This includes ~$22 for your green fee, golf cart, range balls, and tax plus an additional ~$8 that will go into our year-end prize fund.

  • The year-end prize fund will be used to purchase trophies for the spring, summer, and overall champions and the rest will be distributed to players in the form of gift cards based on points won over the course of the season.

  • There will be weekly closest to the pin and longest putt made from on the green contests. Participation in these special events is optional and will cost $5 per player per event entered, which is payable to whomever is running the League that day. The winner of each special event will receive 50% of the cash pot and 1 point.

  • Please play “ready” golf. It is not necessary to rush, but please move quickly between shots and don’t doddle. Record your scores on the next tee box. Our goal needs to be 10 minutes per hole (a 11⁄2 hour round). While that is unlikely, please understand that 15 minutes per hole (a 21⁄4 hour round) is totally unacceptable; especially in those hot summer months. So, please remember that your group’s position on the golf course is immediately behind the group in front of you and not just in front of the group behind you. This is everyone’s responsibility in every group! Please embrace it!

  • Replace and/or put sand in your divots. Repair all ball marks on the green. Rake traps until smooth. Essentially, leave the course like you would want it to be if you were in the group behind.

  • USGA rules apply. Please follow them. If you’re unsure, please ask someone. Please play the ball as it lies until otherwiseinformed that summer rules (lift, clean, and place) are in effect. There will be these exceptions.

Unplayable Lie or Ball in the Desert, Lost, or Out of Bounds

In an effort to speed up play, please abide by the following rule modifications;

  • Unplayable Lie: If you hit a shot into the desert or anywhere on the course for that matter and you find it unplayable, then you are entitled to all the forms of relief provided by the USGA: Under a penalty of one stroke, you may replay the shot that resulted in the unplayable lie or you may drop your ball no more than two club lengths from, but no closer to the hole than where your ball was found unplayable or you may drop your ball as far back as you want to but must keep the point where your ball was found between your dropping point and the pin.

  • SDGL Desert Rule: In addition, if your ball crossed grass on its way to the unplayable lie, under a penalty of one stroke, you may drop the ball no more than two club lengths from where the ball last crossed grass.

  • If you hit a shot that is lost outside a penalty area or believed/confirmed out of bounds, then under a penalty of one stroke, you may drop the ball within two club lengths of where your ball last crossed grass or where your ball went out of bounds.

  • In both instances, if after a USGA mandated maximum 3-minute search, you find your ball unplayable, cannot find your ball, or find it out of bounds, then you shall proceed in accordance with the rules identified above.

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